Heinrich Albers-Schönberg

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Heinrich Albers-Schönberg

Heinrich Ernst Albers-Schönberg (born January 21, 1865 in Hamburg ; † June 4, 1921 there ) was a German doctor and radiologist. He was the first X-ray specialist and was one of the founders of radiology in Germany.

Life

Albers-Schönberg began his medical studies in Tübingen , then went to Leipzig and received his doctorate there in 1891. med. He became a corps bow bearer of Suevia Tübingen (1886) and Misnia (1890). He then worked from 1892 to 1894 as an assistant doctor at the Eppendorf General Hospital , including a year in Leipzig. He then settled in Hamburg as a general practitioner and obstetrician. In 1897 he and his colleague Georg Deycke founded the first X-ray institute and laboratory for medically hygienic examinations . From 1897 he published the first German radiological journal on the advances in the field of X-rays . In 1900 Albers-Schönberg founded the archive and atlas series of atlases of normal and pathological anatomy in typical X-ray images . In 1903 he was employed as a radiologist at the Old General Hospital in Hamburg-St. Georg called. He attached an X-ray house that he had planned. It became the model for similar institutions. This is today's Albers-Schönberg Institute for X-ray Diagnostics at the Asklepios Clinic St. Georg . The newly founded University of Hamburg appointed him full professor in 1919 . This made him the first professor of radiology worldwide. From 1910 he showed the first radiation damage. The left arm had to be removed. He enriched almost all areas of radiology with his research. In 1903 he was the first to recognize that X-rays have a germ-damaging effect. His name is associated with Albers-Schönberg's disease , the marble bone disease he describes, or osteopetrosis. The Albers-Schönberg-Weg and the Albers-Schönberg-Stieg in Hamburg-Barmbek-Nord are named after him.

Albers-Schönberg was a member of the Academic Club in Hamburg from 1893 . He was only 56 years old. He died as a result of x-ray damage. His wife Margarethe geb. Schroeder was 88 years old (December 10, 1869 - March 4, 1958). Both were buried in the Nienstedten cemetery .

Works

The radiology memorial on the grounds of the Asklepios Klinik St. Georg in Hamburg
  • X-ray technology - textbook for doctors and students . Hamburg, L. Gräfe & Sillem, 1903. (2nd edition 1906; 6th edition Leipzig, Thieme, 1941)
  • The X-ray procedure in surgery .
  • Archive and atlas of normal and pathological anatomy in typical x-ray images .
  • A rare, previously unknown structural anomaly of the skeleton. Advances in the field of X-rays , Hamburg, 1916, 23: 174–175.

literature

Web links

Commons : Heinrich Albers-Schönberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b Wolfgang U. Eckart , Christoph Gradmann (Hrsg.): Doctors-Lexicon. From antiquity to the present . 3. Edition. Springer, Heidelberg 2006, ISBN 3-540-29584-4 , pp. 6 .
  2. Dissertation: Some cases treated with Koch's tuberculin .
  3. Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 130 , 392; 94 , 278
  4. ^ Gravestone on the Nienstedten cemetery in Hamburg